[TriLUG] Matrox Video Card in Gentoo

[Randall Barlow]

Well, here's a big never mind.  The driver that worked was "mga".  But I 
do have another video anomaly...

    My primary video card is an older NVidia card (Riva TNT2 Model 64).  
About 4 months ago or so I had a different install of Gentoo that later 
crashed because I was an idiot and merged some config files upon 
updating the system.  So I decided to go for a fresh install.  If I use 
the "nv" driver, the system seems to work OK.  But if I got with the 
recommended "nvidia" driver (which I was using previously with no 
problem) the splash screen comes up as usual, but then stays up for a 
long time.  When KDE finally loads, everything on the screen is really 
messed up looking, and I can't tell where I'm clicking or anything.  Any 
ideas?

Randy Barlow

Randall Barlow wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    So I finally got my hands on a spare PCI video card so I can do 
> dual monitors on my Gentoo system.  Well I got it working, kind of.  
> It's running at some incredibly low resolution (320 x 200) despite the 
> fact that I've specified in the xorg.conf plenty of other 
> resolutions.  I didn't know what driver to put in the config file so I 
> just used the "vga" driver.  lspci gave me that the card is the Matrox 
> "MGA 2164W [Millennium II]", but I don't know what to do with this 
> information when it comes to what driver to specify in the config 
> file.  Any pointers/advice would be appreciated!
>
> Randy Barlow